Fourth: the 1919 revolution and the birth of the united nation
Point 4 of 10 — Lesson 8: Modern Egypt from the 1919 Revolution to the October 1973 Victory and the New RepublicQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
04Fourth: the 1919 revolution and the birth of the united nation
After the end of the World War in 1918, an Egyptian deputation led bySaad Zaghloul, Ali Shaarawi and Abdel Aziz Fahmiwent to the British AgentSir Reginald Wingatedemanding: an end to the Protectorate, abolition ofmartial law and press censorship, and permission to travel to thePeace Conference in Paristo present Egypt's cause of independence.
The Agent rejected their status on the ground that they did not represent the nation, so the great popular petition movementarose to delegate "the Egyptian Delegation (the Wafd)".
The occupation authoritiesexiled Saad Zaghloul and his companions to Malta on 8 March 1919, and the greatest popular revolution broke out.
Townspeople clashed with the occupying troops; Muslims and Christians united — priests stood on the pulpit ofal-Azhar and sheikhs stood at the altars of the churches; andEgyptian women came out in demonstration for the first time.
Britain was forced to release Zaghloul, to issue the Declaration of 28 February 1922 recognising Egypt as an independent sovereign state and ending the Protectorate, and to allow the Constitution of 1923.
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